Drapery-suspension pin for curtain-rings.



E. B. ASHMORE.

DRAPBRY SUSPENSION PIN FOR CURTAIN RINGS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1912.

1&6939593, Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

EDITH BANCROFT ASHMORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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v Specification of Letters Patent.

DRAPERY-SUS'PENSION rm non CURTAIN-RINGS.

Patented Au 12,1913.

Application filed January 9', 1912. Serial No. 670,230.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDITH BANC'ROFT ASH- .uonn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, in the State of .Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drapery-Suspension Pins for Curtain-Rings, whereof the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hookpins especially adapted for hanging curtains, portie-res and other draperies in connection with the rings of curtain poles.

The object of the invention is to provide a pin of this character which, combining the properties of simplicity of construction, cheapness of manufacture and facility of application, will lie approximately flat with the plane of the fabric, holding it straight and preventing it from flopping or falling over will not tear the fabric and will have a substantial frictional locking contact therewith.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a front elevation of a drapery suspension pin embodying this invention.v

Fig. 2' represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section thereof on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a fragment of a curtain and two of these suspension pins applied thereto in operative connection with curtain pole rings, and a fragment of a curtain pole. Fig. 5 represents a vertical. section on line 5-'-5 of Fig.

1. Fig. 6 represents a side elevation of the device in which the tongue is elongated and comes in contact with the fabric at a point below the return bends of the upturned hooks.

The same reference numbers indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

This drapery suspension hookpin is composed of wire in one piece and comprises two outer upturned U-shaped hooks l0 and 20 laterally spread in approximately the same plane, their. inner legs 12 and 22 diverging downward the outer upturned legs.

11 and 21 having sharpened prongs l3 and 23, and an intermediate downturned tongue 30 composed of two wires 31 and 32 united respectively by return bends 33 and-34: with the upper end of said diverging inner legs 12 and. 22 of said upturned hooks and at their lower ends with each other by a return bend 35. The tongue is preferably spread slightly at its lower end and bent inward approximately to the plane of said spread upturned hooks.

In Fig. .6 the tongue 35 corresponding to the tongue 35 of the other figures, is elongated so as to touch the fabric at a .point below the plane of the bends l0 and 20. This construction may be preferred in some cases.

In the use of this draperypin, the pointed prongs 11 and 21 are inserted in the fabric of the curtain 50 as indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and the tongue 30 is passed through the eye 65 hung in the curtain pole ring on the curtain pole 7 0 as shown in Fig. 4. The spreading of the whole structure into approximately the same plane causes the hooks to hold the fabric without wrinkling, the diverging inner legs 12 and 22 and the backward bend of the tongue 30 between them all resting against the fabric. The bent tongue also serves as a friction lock against accidental detachment of the hook 35 from the eye as sometimes happens with ordinary hooks when the curtain is suddenly thrown or jerked for the purpose of sliding it along. the pole. The inverted spread hooks with sharpened points perform the double function of engaging the fabric without stitching and of holding the edge thereof straight after engagement, thus keeping the fabric from flopping orfalling over. a

I claim as my invention:

A curtain pole ring drapery suspension pin composed of wire in one piece" and comprising two upturned hooks laterally spread in approximately the same plane, their in\ ner legs diverging downward and their outer legs constituting sharp pointed pins, and an intermediate downturned tongue united with the upper ends of said diverging inner legs and extending downward bet-ween them forming therewith a downturried hook, the lower end of said tongue being bent backward approximately to the plane of said spread hooks and adapted to form a fric tional lock in connection with the fabric to be suspended. Y

EDITH BANCROFT ASHIWORE. Witnesses:

FRANK CHASE Scares, MARY Y. BROOKS. 

